NAB: Financial Conflict Of Interest For Nightline Senior Director?

News from NAB, via Broadcasting & Cable: ABC’s “Nightline senior director George Murphy will not be presenting a case study Tuesday morning on using Sony’s Vegas nonlinear editing system in the broadcast environment. According to a source at ABC, the network yanked Murphy from the Las Vegas convention gig last week following B&C’s inquiries about whether Murphy’s public enthusiasm for Sony had turned into a financial conflict of interest…ABC’s nixing of Murphy’s NAB appearance may not end the story. ‘It’s an unfortunate situation,’ says an ABC insider, ‘that is being reviewed as we speak.'”